Timekeeper device.



D. NEMETH.

TIMEKEEPER, DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 19|5.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

11v VLN 70R. 82150 m I By M J45 A TTOIRNE V I V/ T NE 55 E S DEZSONEMETH, 0h- NEW YORK, N. Y.

'rrmnmnrsn nnvron.

specification of Letters llatent.

Patented Mar. 28. i $911.6.

Application filed literati, 12,1915. Serial No. 13,911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it lmown that I, Dnzso NEMETH, a subject of the King of Hungary,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Timekeeper Devices, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a timekeeper device and has as its object toprovide means for registering the time at which employees enter andleavetheir place of employment in an easy and simple way.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thischaracter producing a record of the time of the employees enterlng andleaving the place of employment which may easily be read and a timesheet be prepared based thereon without any intricate work.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consistssubstantially in the combination of a recording phonograph of the Edisontype with a clock striking the required divisions of time on a bell soas to record the sound thereof on a cylinder applied to the phonographand with a. mechanism adapte to prevent misuses.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of aphonograph with a device constructed according to this invention appliedthereto. Fig. 2 is a diagram of the electrical means used in the device,showing also details of the latter, partly in section and partly inelevation.

The same part is designated by the same reference character throughoutthe different views.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, 3 is a casing mounted on thetop 4 of the phonograph case, having a transparent front door 5 whichmay be locked so as to prevent any tampering with the mechanism placedinside the casing 3, where is placed a clock 6 which strikes,preferably, every quarter of an hour. The sound thus produced istransmitted to the recording diaphragm 7 by means of a flexible tube 8connected to the casing 3 and to the attachment 9 of the diaphragm 7which carries the speaking horn 10. The diaphragm records the sound onthe cylinder A. Within the casing 3 is further placed a buzzer 11electrically connected with the start-and-stop device of the phonograph,as hereinafter described and the sound produced thereby is recorded onthe cylinder A in the same way as above described with regard to thestriking of the clock.

he start-and-stop device is the same as generally used in phonographs,viz: a button pressed down starts the phonograph and another buttonpressed down stops it, the two buttons being so connected that when oneis pressed down the other is necstands still. In order to start it andkeep it going the button 12 must be pressed down and held there. As soonas it is released, the spring 14 will force it up and stop thephonograph. The other button 13 is so constructed that'a portion atabout midway of its height is of conducting material electricallyconnected to the buzzer 11 whereas the remainder of the button 13 iscovered with insulatin material 15. A connector lfiis so place inrespect to the button 13 that it closes an electrical circuit to thebuzzer ll whenever the button 13 is midway between its lowest andhighest position, as is obvious from the drawing. By this arrange,-rnent, whenever the phonograph is started or stopped, a short buzz willbe produced within the casing 3 and the sound recorded on the cylinderA.

Electrical contacts 17 are placed around the outer periphery of the dialof the clock 6 adapted to be touched by the long hand of the clock whenit is passing over same. The contacts 17 are so placed that the handtouches them a little before striking of the respective division of timeand remains in contact therewith a little after the clock has struck.The contact of the hand with the contactors 17 closes a circuit intowhich is coupled a magneto 20 placed under the lower end of the button12, at a suitable distance therefrom which, on each closing of thecircuit draws down the button 153 and thereby starts the phonograph,whereas after breaking of the circuit the button 12 will be released andthe phonograph stopped. By these means it is secured that the phonographbe automatically set in motion while the clock is striking.

The operation of the above described device is as follows: The employeeon cptcring and on leaving the place of employment starts the phonographby pressing down the button 12, thereby producing a buzzing .soundrecorded on the cylinder A. ,The

clock strikes at the required intervals, the sound produced therebybeing also recorded and the names of the employees between two suchsounds indicate those who came or left in the respective period. Thetime-sheet clerk on making up his time-sheet has the cylinder played ona reproducing phono graph and notes down the names and numbers of theemployees with the respective periods of their arrival or leaving. Hetakes care to ascertain that each name and number be preceded andfollowed by the sound of the buzzer. The watchman at the door, nearwhich the time-keeper device is placed. will see to it that none of theemployee: make more than two buzzing sounds. eilisuses may also bedetected by checking (the voices of the employees. The date may beeither recorded on the cylinder each mornmg through the speaking horn orit may be labeled. Of course, each cylinder may be used several times.

I claim:

1. The combination with a recording phonograph and an electrical buzzer,of a switch controlling said phonograph, means combined with one memberof said switch for normally maintaining it in an inoperative position,an electric circuit for said buzzer, said circuit including the secondmember of said switch, and a make and break contact arranged therewithmidway in the length of the seond member of said switch whereby saidbuzzer is caused to operate momentarily at the beginning and at thecessation of operation of said phonograph.

2. The combination with a recordin nograph, an electric buzzer and a0100 switch controlling the operation of said nograph, said switchhaving a spring phoof a phocombined holding it normally open, 'a contactmovable with said switch, a fixed contact adapted to engage said movablecontact as it is moved past, an electric circuit embracing said movableand fixed contacts and said buzzer whereby the latter is actuated by theoperation of said switch, a plurality of fixed contacts on said clock, amovable contact carried by the lever hand thereof, a Second electriccircuit embracing the fixed and movable contacts on said clock, meanscombined therewith for actuating said switch wherebythe phonograph iscaused to o erate and means for conveying the sound 0 said buzzer andsaid clock to said phonograph.

. DEZSO NEMETH. Witnesses: l V MIKEL MALIESIATIS, v HnINz FnosMnL:

*Qopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G."

